He rained flesh also upon them as dust, and feathered fowls like as the sand of the sea:
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Gill's Exposition
And he let it fall in the midst of their camp,.... Or, "his camps" (l); the four camps of Israel; for so many there were, Num 2:1 or the camp of God, where he dwelt, and before which he went as the…
Barnes' Notes
He rained flesh also upon them as dust - The flesh of quails, Num 11:31. The word “rained” means that they seemed to come upon them like a copious shower. The word dust denotes their great abundance.…
In these verses,
I. The psalmist observes the late rebukes of Providence that the people of Israel had been under, which they had brought upon themselves by their dealing treacherously with God, Psa…
Cambridge Bible
And he rained flesh upon them as the dust,
And winged fowl as the sand of the seas.
The sending of quails is connected, as in Exodus 16, with the sending of the manna; but the language of the Psalm…